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  • 27-04-2009 10:55am
    #1
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Euro symbols are displaying as boxes when posting from boards mobile.


    Probably missing a utf8_encode/decode somewhere along the way :)


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    #2
    magicianz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭magicianz


    Also on some threads im finding boxes instead of commas, inverted commas, apostraphes and other punctuation marks


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    #3
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    I can't replicate this.

    If you see this issue again, please reply to this thread with a link to the post where you see it happening.


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    #4
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60334788&postcount=48


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    #5
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Testing.

    Posting from m.boards on IE8

    €


    EDIT: hummm... must be a browser issue so.

    Nokia browser on E51.


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    Ron DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC




    Testing. Nokia browser on e71.

    EDIT: not looking good.


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    #7
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    How about now?

    EDIT: €


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Actually, scratch that. vBulletin is doing the right thing (translating the character to a HTML character reference).

    I think you just have crappy browsers lads. :(


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    Ron DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    Conor wrote: »
    How about now?

    EDIT:

    I can see it fine.
    but it copy and pastes it as .

    But if I insert my own I get .


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    Ron DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    Conor wrote: »
    Actually, scratch that. vBulletin is doing the right thing (translating the character to a HTML character reference).

    I think you just have crappy browsers lads. :(

    Yeah, let's blame nokia.

    Color, go home/to the pub. It's after half six already.


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    #11
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    . dot
    , comma
    ' single quote
    ? question mark
    ! exclaimation mark
    " double quote
    - dash
    ( open parenthesis
    ) close parenthesis
    @ at symbol
    / fwdslash
    : double colon
    _ underscore
    ; semi colon
    + plus symbol
    & ampersand
    % percent
    * star
    = equal sign
    < less than
    > greater than
    £ pound
    euro
    $ dollar
    ¥ yen
    € currency sign
    [ left brace
    ] right brace
    { left curly bracket
    } right curly bracket
    \ backslash
    ~ tilda
    ^ circumflex accent
    ¡ upside down exclaimation mark
    ¿ upside down question mark
    § section sign
    # hash
    |vertical line


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    #12
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    vBulletin is correctly producing & #8364; (without the space after the &) as the HTML for the euro symbol, so if it's behaving oddly in any browser - mobile or not - then it's a browser issue and not a vBulletin issue.


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    #13
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Ron DMC wrote: »
    Yeah, let's blame nokia.

    Not quite yet. It appears that if I post from my phone, vBulletin is not replacing the symbols with entities. This could be the root of the problem.
    Ron DMC wrote: »
    Conor, go home/to the pub. It's after half six already.

    Soon. :)


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    #14
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Conor wrote: »
    Not quite yet. It appears that if I post from my phone, vBulletin is not replacing the symbols with entities. This could be the root of the problem.
    This was posted from m.twitter.

    So the browser seems to work ok.


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    #15
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Jonathan wrote: »
    This was posted from m.twitter.

    So the browser seems to work ok.

    Hmm, that's working, but only because all the character sets in use are the same. Since the euro symbol is encoded differently in different character sets the correct solution is for vBulletin to save the character as the appropriate HTML entity. It seems to be doing that for the main skin, but not for the mobile one.


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